'82 Fire Sets Media Ablaze
Wells Fargo's Minneapolis History Museum has a program this month commemorating the 1982 Thanksgiving Day Fire. The Fire and people's memories are also featured on Wells Fargo's History site.
That blaze in downtown Minneapolis destroyed the Northwestern National bank headquarters, the company that rebuilt itself as Norwest and later merged with Wells Fargo.
The fire took everyone by surprise and the event was seared in the community's memory.
This year marked the 25th anniversary of the Fire. Minneapolis Curator Megan Schaack blogged about the fire, developed exhibits and hosted events that culled memories of the disaster, good and bad.
WellsFargoHistory.com has video memories from employees, including today's CEO John Stumpf, who began work immediately to get business back on track. The fire occured on Thanksgiving Thursday and burned through the weekend, but the Company opened first thing the following Monday morning. Rock stars!
The fire is a big deal in the Twin Cities. The Museum's events got a lot of attention from the media, in print from the Downtown Journal 
and on TV at KARE (Channel 11) and Fox 9
(Check out how Channel 5 uses WellsFargoHistory.com as their content — that darn media!)
Comments
Charles, do you work for wells? if so how did you apply for this job? it seems like a cool gig to look up history and post info to the blog.
Posted by: Nancy | November 30, 2007 10:00 AM
Hi Nancy:
I do work for Wells Fargo's History group. We do a lot of things, including this web stuff.
We're not hiring right now, but you can send me your qualifications if you want -- you never know....
Posted by: Charles Riggs | November 30, 2007 04:44 PM